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It looks like the miscommunication was _to_ him, not _from_ him. He was called in to collect his stuff, but then not fired once he got in with his boss. Personally, I had no troubl…

If you disagree, can you provide a desired end point that you believe actually protects privacy, and a roadmap to get to this point? I personally don't see a path to an end point w…

How do you propose actually preventing the collection, particularly that by private citizens? Note, I'm explicitly not talking about making it illegal or other feel-good measures. …

I don't personally think it's a great outcome - in fact I think it's a pretty bad one. However, I do think that that the outcome of universal access to surveillance is the best one…

So, we all see the problem already. Do you have a plan that will actually solve the issue? Data will continue to be collected, be it by state entities, corporations, or private cit…

'No one gets access' has never been an option, though. It was impossible once ALPR/ANPR, or even the base technologies - OCR, large databases, and networking - were developed.

That's pretty much the business model. Copy ideas and execute faster than the original developers because they have more resources.

As long as you're on a *nix, yes. RubyGems works cross-platform, not just cross-POSIX.

The title deserves fixing, IMO. It's not just CoH, NCSoft is closing Paragon Studios. I can certainly speculate that it's fallout from some other bad decisions on NCSoft's part, si…

No TSA, which is almost worth it by itself.